...it's well worth giving the 8 month old 22.11.2 a try.
It helped the monitor not waking up 'bug' as well as allowing me to use FreeSync. A game that stuttered with the latest drivers no longer does that with 22.11.2.
My benchmark results are 3rd in this list (GBR-User) against others using the latest 23.8.1 driver.

There are zero benefits for me to use the latest driver at all. How can an 8 month+ old driver work better (for some) than the latest one?